Door-hanger.



PATBNTED FEB. 14, 1905.

F. B. COOK.

DOOR HANGER. ArrLmA'non FILED my 16, 1903.

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DOOR HANGER.

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DOOR HANGER.

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Patented February 14, 190 5.

ATENT .FFICE.

FRANK B. COOK, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DOOR-HAJNGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 782,491, dated February 14, 1905.

"Application filed May 16,1903. $erial No. 157,347.

To all ll/71,0717; it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK B. CooK. a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Door-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention contemplates an improved door-hanger of that type in which one or more rolls or wheels are arranged to travel back and forth within a tubular track or way.

Generally stated, the object of my invention isto provide a simple and highly-eflicient hanger of the foregoing character.

A special object is to provide an improved construction and arrangement which will obviate the necessity of using centrally-divided rolls in a hanger of this type.

It is also an object to provide certain details and features of improvement tending to increase the general etficiency and serviceability of a door-hanger of this particular character.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a car having a door provided with my improved hangers. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section on line 2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 illustrates a pair of parlor-doors provided with my improved hangers. Figs. 4

and 5 are respectively an enlarged cross-sec- I tion and a side elevation of the improved hanger which I employ in connection with cardoors. Figs. 6, 7, and 8 are respectively an enlarged cross-section, an enlarged longitudinal section, and a plan of the improved hanger which I employ in connection with parlordoors. side elevation, a plan, and an end View, the

latter being in vertical section, of another tread of the roll.

Figs. 9, 10, and 11 are respectively a ends mounted in the upper embracing portions of the hanger-body. In order to reduce friction, antifriction-rolls c are interposed between this axle and the inner surface of the hanger-roll. As illustrated, the hanger-body is provided at each side with an opening 0 through which the tread of the roll projects. In this way the tread of the roll is exposed at each side to an extent suflicient to enable it to roll upon a slotted track or way. For example, the slotted track or way consists of the slotted tube or tubular member D, which is suitably maintained in a horizontal position and which is provided in its under side with a continuous longitudinally-extending slot (Z. Thus the hanger-roll is solid or undivided in character and is embraced by the hanger-body. notwithstanding that it is adapted to travel upon a slotted track or waysuch, for example; as the said slotted tube or tubular member.

In Figs. 6, 7, and 8, which illustrate aconstruction adapted more particularly for use in connection with parlor-doors, the hangerbody consists of a yoke F, adapted to embrace the hanger-roll E and connected with the parlor-door G by means of a couple ofadjustable bolts H, screwed into a plate 1, securedto the top of the door. In this way the door can be slightly raised and lowered upon the hanger. Thehanger-body otherwise is substantially like the one previously described, inasmuch as it embraces the roll and has an opening at each side for exposing the The-tubular track or way J is similar to the one previously described, but is preferably adjustably supported by the bolts or screws K. Thus there is an adjustable connection between the door and the hangers and also between the slotted track or way and the means of support.

In Figs. 9, 10, and 11 the construction is substantially the same as in the preceding tigurcs, with the exception that in this case two rolls are employed in tandem'instead of one. The hanger-body L, as in the case of Figs. 4 and '5, is composed of two cast or pressed metal plates Z, having a lower portion for attaching to a door and provided with upper portions Z at each end, adapted to embrace the two rolls M. Like the others, these rolls M are mounted on axles m, carried by the hanger-body. Antifriction-rolls m are interposed between the axles and the rolls, so as to reduce friction.

Thus it will be seen that I provide a very simple, serviceable, and eflicient form of hanger adapted for use in connection with either parlor or cardoors or any other kind of door. In each case the hanger, although it is arranged .to extend through and travel along a slotted track or way, is provided with a solid or undivided roll, the weight of the door being sustained at each side of the roll rather than at its center, and in each case the hanger-body is provided at each side with a gap or opening through which the tread of v the hanger-roll projects, whereby the roll is enabled to travel along the slotted track or way.

The hanger-rolls, although traveling within the tube and although they are mounted at each side, rather than in the center, have fixed points of connection with the parallel side portions of the hanger-body and are so formed as to be wholly within the bore of the tubular track or way, no peripherial portions of the rolls extending through the slot in the tube. More specifically considered, the constructions illustrated in Figs. 4, 5, 9, 10, and 11, are preferable. As thus illustrated each construction involves a pair of plates adapted to be secured flatwise together with the roll or rolls between their upper parallel portions, and in each case the plates are cut away in order to allow the roll or 'rolls to travel on the slotted bottom portion of the tube. In Fig. 5, as well as in Fig. 7, the openings at each side of the hanger-body through which the roll 7 projects and engages the slotted bottom portion of the tube, are of a circumscribed character; but in Fig. 9, for example, the openings through which the rolls project and engage the slotted bottom portion of the tube are in the form of notches extending inwardly from the edges of the plate. Both in Fig. 7 and in Fig. 5 it will be seen that a yoke is provided which embraces the roll and which has its ends connected by vertical portions with the door or with the balance of the hanger-body. In Fig. 7 the yoke consists of the parallel portions f, to which the opposite ends of the axle e are rigidly secured and the united end portions of which are connected with the door through the medium of the vertical portions H. In Fig. 5 the yoke consists of the parallel portions a, to which the opposite end portions of the axle c are rigidly secured, and the end portionspf which are connected with the balace of the hanger-body through the medium of the vertical portions (0. In either case it will be seen that these vertical portions areadapted to travel back and forth in the slot in front and rear of the roll. Also in Fig. 9 the two plates of which the hanger-body L is composed have vertical portions 1, which connect the roll-embracing portions Z with the balance of the hangerbody. In Figs. 5 and 9that is to say, in both constructi'ons-the plates have parallel upper portions, the roller means being mounted between said portions, and in each construction it is also true that the two plates are brought together to provide vertical portions adapted to extend through and travel in the slot of the tube.

What I claim as my invention is 1. A door-hanger arrangement comprising 'being brought together to provide vertical portions adapted to extend through and travel in the slot of said tube. I

2. A door-hanger arrangement comprising a longitudinally-slotted tube, roller means in!9 closed by said tube and traveling upon the slotted bottom portion thereof, a hanger-body provided with a yoke embracing said roller means, and suitable axle means supporting the roller means and mounted at opposite ends upon the side portions ofsaid yoke, verticallydisposed portions rigid with the ends of said yoke and adapted to extend through and travel back and forth in the slot in front and rear of said roller means, whereby space is afforded below the yoke and between the said vertical portions to permit the roller means to engage the tube.

3. Adoor-hanger arrangement comprising a longitudinally-slotted tube, roller means inclosed within said tube and adapted to travel upon the slotted bottom portion thereof, a hanger body composed of complemental halves, and axle means supporting the roller means and mounted at opposite ends upon the two halves of the hanger-body, said halves comprising two plates provided with separated parallel upper portions constituting a yoke embracing said roller means, each plate being formed with a circumscribed opening to permit said roller means to engage the inner surface of the said tube, and the two plates being bent together to provide vertical portions rigid with said yoke and adapted to travel back and forth in the slot in front and rear of said roller means, -the lower separated portions of the plates being adapted to receive and hold the upper portion of a door between them.

Signed by me at Chicago, Illinois, this 12th day of May, 1903.

FRANK B. COOK.

Witnesses:

CHARLES HICKOK, WM. A. HARDERS. 

